Transmission #21-16 Designate: ALPHA
Aircraft supercarrier JDS Katsuragi – Pacific ocean, 1200 km south of Japan
SBU Cmd. Kobayashi
2025/05/28
In the middle of the Pacific ocean, there is an aircraft carrier which houses the UN's International Joint Special Operations Corps, known as JSOC team Raven. In there, commander Kobayashi is trying to wake her subordinate, 2nd lt. Lucy, up from her sleep. She always slept over time, but it wasn't like they could allow themselves to relax in times like these.
Hk: Hey, wake up. Hikari said, slapping Lucy's face gently.
L: Hm... Hm- Ah, commander!
Lucy speaks groggily. She isn't really the kind who cares about schedules...
Hk: Honestly girl, I can't play blind for every time you sleep overtime... Hikari complained at the girl's laziness. There is work to be done. If it wasn't enough the captain bothering me, now the admiral himself is here.
What itself is a sign that things weren't that well, this time. And Lucy knew it. But she was too asleep to even bother.
L: The admiral... What is he doing here...?
She lays back on her bed. Hikari answers sarcastically, hands on her waist.
Hk: Trying to solve the case of that Nicaraguan son-of-a-bitch, I guess?
Lucy sits on the bed, half awake. That Menendez case was already getting on her nerves. Especially the "sleep" ones.
L: Oh, right... By the way, why did you come wake me up?
Lucy asks. It wasn't that usual for her to be awaken by Hikari, normally this hard task was given to some other officer, who wasn't that nice to her.
Hk: It was me or the captain... Or you wanted to spend the week cleaning everything up? She was trying to be kind with her, after all...
/[flying deck]/
After having shower, breakfast, changing, and being scolded by her commander, Lucy walk out of the stairway, in the bottom of the command tower, with Hikari. They are being followed by two drones, a MQ-27 Dragonfire and an ASD controlled by Hikari.
L: Nee, commander, do you think something will come out of it? I mean, this North Korea thing?
Hk: True, they tend to talk more than actually... Hikari pauses her speech, trying to avoid the inevitable, imminent cacophony. ... Act, but I don't think we would've been deployed this quickly if they didn't think they would act. Specially because we can't risk more victims of another incident caused by another cuckoo, let alone right after "that". It would be a disaster, specially for us.
Oh, that incident... Hikari was never eager to talk about it, so to say.
L: Two cuckoos this time, Menendez and the Korean. Concluded Lucy, who seconds later asked. On that "incident", how many losses, again? 4000?
Hk: 3873 out of 10k, being exact. I remember, I was on the clearance front. I couldn't believe when they told me the commander of the front was the guy who locked us in there...
Hikari shakes her head, trying to dismiss the subject. It hasn't been that long since it happened, and she got out of there. Actually, it has been almost one year ago. It was when her "unit" - it wasn't even a real, military unit; most of them were civilians - had the most KIAs. Seeing her unconfortable, Lucy changes into another matter.
L: But hey, did the land team make any contact?
Hikari answers, worried. They have been deployed too long ago to have not made any contact. Unless they've been compromised, something they didn't want to even think about.
Hk: No... Last time we heard of them, they were investigating. I wonder if they found out something...
L: How long has it been since then?
Hk: Two weeks.
Next: What happened to the land team?